Support for sending email with oauth2 authentication

[mwohlin]

What did you do?
I need to be able to send emails from Alertmanager to o365 using oauth2 authentication. Looking at the code I see it support CRAM-MD5, PLAIN and LOGIN

What did you expect to see?
Can we get oauth2 added?

• Alertmanager version:

0.17.0

• Prometheus version:

2.7.1

[brian-brazil]

I believe this requires state, and is also tricky to implement, so doesn't quite make sense here.

[mwohlin]

Thank you for responding so quickly!
I don't believe state is required. It needs to make 2 calls, one to retrieve a token and then one to send the email with the token. I did find an example go smtp which uses oauth2.
The code does not fit this use case exactly but it looks like it has all of the parts needed.
What do you think?
https://github.com/fhs/misc/blob/master/cmd/gmailsmtp/main.go

Authenticating with username and password is being deprecated at my employer.

[brian-brazil]

I think this is something that varies by provider, so a generic implementation isn't possible. I'd suggest asking for a role account that can use a supported auth mechanism.

[mwohlin]

Role account? Mark Wohlin On Jul 3, 2019, at 15:38, Brian Brazil <[email protected]> wrote: I think this is something that varies by provider, so a generic implementation isn't possible. I'd suggest asking for a role account that can use a supported auth mechanism. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[brian-brazil]

A user account created solely for use of a service (e.g. alertmanager), rather than an user account that's tied to a person.